These are the stories and poems we will be reading and discussing in class;
your Midterm will cover the stories,
and your Final will cover the poems.
Feminist Criticism:
Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour 21
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper 77
Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, 148
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 264
Jury of her Peers - Susan Glaspell
Culture & Connections:
Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 192
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find 280
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums 271
Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man 254
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues 230
The Sky is Gray- Ernest Gaines
Contemporary Society/Capitalism/Postmodernism:
A & P - John Updike
Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
Blue Winds Dancing - Tom Whitecloud
Everyday Use - Alice Walker
POEMS TO READ
History
Sir Patrick Spens | Anonymous | 312 |
When I was One and Twenty | Housman | 400 |
Dover Beach | Arnold | 449 |
The Second Coming | Yeats | HO
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Romantics
The Lamb | Blake | 426 |
The Tyger | Blake | 427 |
The Chimney Sweeper | Blake | HO |
London | Blake | 495 |
The World is Too Much with Us | Wordsworth | 339 |
A Noiseless Patient Spider | Whitman | 378
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Frost
Design | Frost | 486 |
Birches | Frost | 367 |
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Poverty/Class/Culture
Bean Eaters | Brooks | 526 |
We Real Cool | Brooks | 335 |
Harlem | Hughes | 408 |
Mother to Son | Hughes | 424
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Love/Relationships
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | Marlow | 491 |
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | Raleigh | 492 |
To his Coy Mistress | Marvell | 437 |
My Last Duchess | Browning | 365 |
Penelope | Parker | HO
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Death
Because I Could not Stop for Death | Dickinson | 344 |
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good night | (Thomas) | 474 |
Death Be Not Proud (Sonnet 10) | Donne | 484 |
My Papa's Waltz | Roethke | 357 |
Resume | Parker | 401 |
Buffalo Bill's Defunct | cummings | HO |
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Faith
God's Grandeur | Hopkins | 485 |
On My First Son | Donne | HO
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Modernism/Postmodernism
Fog | Sandburg | 411 |
In a Station at the Metro | Pound | 337 |
The Secretary Chant | Piercy | 349 |
next of course to god america i | cummings | 394 |
I May I Might I Must | Moore | 336 |
A Supermarket in California | Ginsburg | 528 |
The Unknown Citizen | Auden | 402 |
Perfection Wasted | Updike | HO
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